Women as Agents of Empire : Sexuality and Immigration in the Spanish Empire during the XVIIIth century

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28 décembre 2012

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Fabrice Melka, « Women as Agents of Empire : Sexuality and Immigration in the Spanish Empire during the XVIIIth century », Femmes, genre, colonisations, ID : 10670/1.qg6r9b


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Although colonization has largely been seen as masculine effort, women were a critical part of late colonial colonization schemes. These imperial projects, which involved the voluntary resettlement of families from one part of the empire to another, were predicated on assumptions about the role of women and families in reinforcing European norms in the colonies, whose creole cultures differed increasingly from those of their European counterparts. In 1778, Spain attempted just such a coloniza...

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